The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-05-26

In total strength than the best man In
1880. 1t 10 not required that students
shall have the measurements taken or do
any work at all In the gymnasium. About
eighty-five per cent. Of them, however,
took the measurement last year, and the
proportion is constantly rising.
DR.. Sargent, who is responsible for the
system Of gymnastics used in large
majority Of the best gymnasiums in this
country, 10 man Of compact figure, five
feet eight inches in height, weighing 40
pounds, having dark hair and brown
eyes, and enjoying perfect health. He
is too busy In his office to do much in
the gymnasium, but he is always suffi-
or rings any feat of physical prowess
perform. He is quiet and unassuming
has the confidence of the students to
high degree. He is thirty-eight years
old, married, and has one son.
The Hemenway Gymnasium, which Is
the centre of the athletic interest at Har-
ward, Is, without doubt, the most per-
feet of its kind in any educa.
tional institution in the country. 1t is
the result of gift of $4,000 from Mr..
Augustus Hemenway, Of Boston, grad
uate of the Harvard class of 1875. Its
full cost, including apparatus, was $780,
900, and 1t was completed in 1870. 1t
occupies q commanding location at the
west of Memorial Hall, and Is separated
by broad street from the college yard.
1t is built of brick, with sandstone trim
mings, and is of colonial style of archi-
lecture. The main hall is a stately room,
113 by 85 feet, rising to the heavy tim
bered roof, and lighted by handsome
windows at each end. The inside walls
are finished in red and yellow brick, and
the woodwork is in hard pine. A gal
lery around the main hall contains
the running track five feet wide. An
iron framework arranged with sliding
eye-bolts and beams, SO that the swing
ing apparatus can be suspended from
any point, is securely bolted to the roof
timbers. On the second-foor is the
rowing-room, seventy by ninety feet,
filled with sixteen hydraulic rowing
machines. Here the candidates for the
varsity crew take their daily practice
during the winter months, and the class
crews do their utmost to develop equally
puissant muscles. In the opposite cor
ner fs the trophy-room hung thick with
flags and pennants, and bordered with
VuC IcCOIuS VI VlCtOIlCb III tuc UOdI huu
on the field. The room contains nota-
BILE collection of athletic photographs
and a group of badly used-up balls, the
trophies of many hard-fought game.
The directors room, spacious and richly
furnished, and two rooms for examina.
tions, occupy the remaining space on
this floor. Besides the main hall, filled
with the latest and best apparatus, the
first-floor contains dressing rooms, bath
and toilet-rooms, the Office and an arm
ory. The basement contains the "cage"
for baseball practice, lacrosse and lawn
tennis, besides the fencing-room, spar
ring-room, eight bowling alleys and the
store-rooms. There are more than a
thousand lockers, and the demand is
always greater than the supply. The
building is heated by steam, scientifically
ventilated, and lacks only swimming
bath to make it complete-a want that
there is already promising movement
to supply.
The Harvard Athletic Association,
which has large influence in cultivating